Insurance Journal announced the promotion of Alan M. Ring to the position of vice president of sales and marketing. Ring joined Wells Publishing, publisher of Insurance Journal Magazine and Insurance Journal Online, in February 2002 as a member of the advertising sales staff, expanding his role to vice president of business development in mid-2003.

Prior to Wells Publishing, he served as director of business development at ElectroniCast Corporation, a market research and market trends conference company specializing in fiber optic component consumption forecasting. Ring also served as the editor of the ElectroniCast Photonics Newsletter, and helped market and manage a variety of ElectroniCast conference events.

Previous experience includes serving as U.S. western regional manager and director, Asia/Pacific at PennWell Publishing’s LIGHTWAVE Magazine, where he was on the start-up team that developed and launched Integrated Communications Design (ICD) Magazine, a spin-off of LIGHTWAVE. Prior to LIGHTWAVE, Ring held a variety of senior level sales positions with Chilton Publishing over a 10-year period.

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